My Song - lost in transit

Re: The loss of a beautiful superyacht

Hi,
I know this isn’t the right place to ask but you all seemed to be answering so here goes.
I have joined ybw today to post a problem but I have no idea how to post it ? I can reply to your thread but can’t find how to place one.
Help pls.
Thanks
 
Re: The loss of a beautiful superyacht

Davepa1967 said:
Hi,
I know this isn’t the right place to ask but you all seemed to be answering so here goes.
I have joined ybw today to post a problem but I have no idea how to post it ? I can reply to your thread but can’t find how to place one.
Help pls.
Thanks
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Not sure but I think you have to wait and or make a number of replies.
 
Re: The loss of a beautiful superyacht

Ah thanks. So I have to make mild conversation first and occupy everyone else’s time before ‘they’ will let me loose with my own GPS related question.
 
Re: The loss of a beautiful superyacht

It looks like they turned off her AIS transmitter in Antigua prior to loading her on the ship.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:4274945/vessel:MY SONG

I wonder what the circumstances were that caused her to 'jump off' the ship? The sea looks fairly rough in the photos; I guess they just didn't lash her down securely enough.
That is going to be a very big insurance claim - as Halcyon has said, it would most probably have been safer if they had sailed her back to the Med on her own bottom!

Especially so when you take into consideration the vessel that she was apparently being transported on.
Another report here mentions the cargo ship Brattingsborg -
https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/05/27/freighter-lost-30-mil-euro-super-yacht-in-balearic-sea/
And this is strange - in the above article they say "her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter".
Yet a bit further on in the article they say that this "yacht has been recently declared Boat of the Year at the Italian Sailing Federation’s Sailor of the Year awards."

Here is the Marinetraffic page for Brattingsborg
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:728284/vessel:BRATTINGSBORG
So, they were transporting this 30 metre yacht on the hatch covers (they wouldn't be allowed to put her in the hold, and sail with the hatch covers open) of a 'relatively' small general cargo ship (130 m. long), rather than a more specialized yacht carrier like Dockwise / Boskalis.

Some more info about My Song from her Builder's website
https://www.balticyachts.fi/yachts/baltic-130-my-song/

They mention that her draft is 7 metres - but she does have a lifting keel.
Even so, her displacement is 105 tonnes - how did they lift her on board this cargo ship Brattingsborg?
I very much doubt that her two cranes combined together would be able to lift this weight - never mind the effect on her stability!
 
Bajansailor said:
This is strange - in the article they say "her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter".
Yet a bit further in the article they say that this "yacht has been recently declared Boat of the Year at the Italian Sailing Federation’s Sailor of the Year awards."
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Hello Martin :)
that's Italy: any prize must go to something beautiful (and beautiful she was, for a big day sailer), who cares if the object is fit for purpose or not. :d
 
Roberto said:
Hello Martin :)
that's Italy: any prize must go to something beautiful (and beautiful she was, for a big day sailer), who cares if the object is fit for purpose or not. :d
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Which explains any number of Italian cars...

If I lost a shoebox from my roof rack, Plod would be down on me like a ton of bricks. Seems to me that there should be similar legislation at sea.

"her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter"

That could mean she's essentially a day sailor and too lightweight for transats, or [conspiracy theory] she's knackered inside and a cheap freighter losing her overboard makes better economic sense than scrapping her, even with the bungs to the ship's crew [/conspiracy theory]
 
Re: The loss of a beautiful superyacht

I suspect that there is less of a conspiracy here than might appear. I suspect that the comment
Bajansailor said:
"her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter".
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...is a mistranslation from an article written in another language.

It was pretty common practice for a boat to be shipped back to Europe after a hard season's racing, to give the crew a break as the boat was due to compete in it's next regatta on 3rd June.

It would appear that My Song was not the only boat being transported on the ship, - according to the report on the Vela website, other yachts on the ship were damaged when she was dislodged.

It's not that unusual for this sort of thing to happen. - Way back in the day Nigel Mansell's brand new Sunseeker (68?) went over the side of a freighter that was shipping it to Florida and got caught in a storm. I think a fairly big Pershing motoryacht was lost in similar circumstances last year.
 
Stemar said:
Which explains any number of Italian cars...

If I lost a shoebox from my roof rack, Plod would be down on me like a ton of bricks. Seems to me that there should be similar legislation at sea.

"her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter"

That could mean she's essentially a day sailor and too lightweight for transats, or [conspiracy theory] she's knackered inside and a cheap freighter losing her overboard makes better economic sense than scrapping her, even with the bungs to the ship's crew [/conspiracy theory]
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A lightweight boat but no stripped out day racer. there are a few internal snaps here:

https://www.balticyachts.fi/yachts/baltic-130-my-song/

One of the other links says she has already won a pot for a transatlantic passage. I suspect Andrewfromfal has put his finger on it. Poor condition probably means: needs tuning for racing and more fashionable upholstery.
 
Counting the crew, I make 29.

Which leads to a question.... would you really want to own it if you need that many people to sail it?


For me the answer is ... no. (ignoring the lack of cash to run such a beast)
 
I don't know where this quote comes from but My Song was in great shape and unlike many other out and out racers, she was also a great cruising yacht and fitted out great down below. This was no day sailor and also won the recent transatlantic race.

Stemar said:
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"her condition was said to be so poor that the owner didn’t dare transatlantic voyage, and decided to transport her by freighter"

That could mean she's essentially a day sailor and too lightweight for transats, or [conspiracy theory] she's knackered inside and a cheap freighter losing her overboard makes better economic sense than scrapping her, even with the bungs to the ship's crew [/conspiracy theory]
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